While watching Highlander 3 (not for the first time, either...) with the 'rents

[timepiececlock]

::mid-movie::

ShakaMom: So [the villain] can change into birds, too?
Rashaka: Lots of the immortals have supernatural powers. Especially in the tv show.
ShakaDad: MacLoed doesn't have any powers.
Rashaka: He can walk under water.
ShakaDad: They can all do that.
ShakaMom: How come they can walk underwater?
ShakaDad: Because they're immortal, and don't have to breathe. Or eat.
Rashaka: Though they do eat. MacLoed doesn't have any real superpowers, though. I guess it's just because he's "awesome" enough as himself, or something.
ShakaDad: Yeah. But he has confidence issues. And he angsts.
Rashaka: A lot.

::further mid-movie::

Rashaka: If this is the French Revolution then why was that guy beheaded for betrayal to the King? The nobles and the monarchs were the ones on the chopping block. This must be pre-revolution, or something.
ShakaMom: It really doesn't matter.
Rashaka: But--
ShakaMom: Can we just watch the show?

::pre-climactic battle::

ShakaDad: They're going to fight in a power plant, huh.
Rashaka: Of course a power plant. Where else would they fight?

::climactic battle quickening, with electricity going crazy and stuff exploding everywhere::

ShakaMom: They've got to stop doing this in dangerous places. It's a wonder any of them live so long.

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[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of last night, when I was watching the last 45 minutes of Titanic on HBO with my mother.

::during the scene with Jack and Rose in the water, post sinking::

Mom: "Rose is really vain, isn't she?"

Me: "Yeah, she probably thinks this movie is about her, doesn't she?"

Mom: "I can't get over how ridiculous this is. How did he manage to find her in that whole mess of people? It's impossible."

Me: "Well, she was yelling for him."

Mom: "Everyone is yelling for somebody. Look, how can she still have her shoes on after all of this?"

Me: "I'd like to know how the necklace is still in the coat pocket after that drama."

Mom: "She still has her earrings, too. Which is not possible. She can't have pierced ears in 1912."

Me: "Uh ... she can't?"

Mom: "Ear piercing didn't start until the 50s."

Me: "They were doing it in Africa and stuff before the 50s."

Mom, with the "Look": "I'm talking about civilized cultures."

Me: "I wasn't around, so I can't say. But what bugs me about this movie? Besides the lame 'plot'? The fact that guy had a red car. They didn't paint cars red in those days. Nor did respectable women wear red dresses. It was considered a whore's color."

Mom: "Didn't she say she'd rather be that one guy's whore than the other one's wife, though?"

Yeah. That's what it's like when my mom sits down and mocks films with me.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Me: "Well, she was yelling for him."

Bwah!


I agree with you on the red dress, but I'm pretty sure there's a famous 16th century paiting about a girl with a pearl earring.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

She seemed adamant about her history, so I just let her go with it. I can say with 100 percent certainty, it's a painting she's never seen, tho.

Every time I see that movie, when they show the shot of the car being lowered into the hold, I start complaining. "They didn't paint cars red back then! How can Cameron get so many minor bullshit details about the ship only people like myself would notice, but get a car color wrong?!"

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Your observation on the French Revolution discrepancy amused me--I hate it when they do things like that ("...but why are they killing him? They should be killing that OTHER dude! Wha...???")

It's nice to know other people watch movies like I do. Especially that they've been raised to do that. I have the same sort of discussions with my parents (as well as random extra shout-outs, like "I was the Nazi in the back right corner of Raiders.").